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Vote Vincent Price for best track of the year
Classic Rock is running a poll for best songs of 2013, and Vincent Price is in the running. Vote for it.
Read more »Gold edition giveaway
British based Team Rock Radio is giving away a free copy of Now what?! deluxe box set, and from the looks of it it’s open worldwide. Enter your details here.
Read more »“Gold Edition” formats rundown
[Updated with tracklist and artwork] The Now What?! tour gold edition that will be released on November 29 in continental Europe and December 2 in the UK will come in following flavours: Double CD, with the first disc containing the original studio album, plus bonus tracks It’ll Be Me and First Sign Of Madness. Second […]
Read more »Après Vous
Opening with Après Vous instead of a staple tune on this tour was certainly a ballsy move on the part of the band. Here’s a good one, from Regensburg on October 25. (watch inside)
Read more »Tour edition update
Edel has released an updated tracklist for the Now what?! tour edition. The second CD (a.k.a. Live Tapes) portion is now: Strange Kind Of Woman Hard Loving Man Vincent Price Contact Lost All The Time in The World No One Came Bodyline Perfect Strangers Above And Beyond Lazy Black Night Smoke On The Water Live […]
Read more »Fire up your karaoke machines
In an effort to promote the tour a.k.a. gold edition of Now what?! (which has been postponed to late November – early December) the record company has posted an instrumental mix of Hell to Pay.
Read more »Meditation Above and Beyond
A guitar signed by all members of Deep purple was offered as a prize in the Above and Beyond cover art contest. While we don’t know if the winner got a guitar, a Dutch artist Anna Schat-Vanger, who came second, has got one. Her submission was a painting called Meditation (pictured above), which was based […]
Read more »A new single and a tour edition
[Updated with tracklist and artwork] The record company has announced that the new single from Now what?! will be Above and Beyond, to be released on October 25 in Europe (28th in UK) as 7” purple vinyl (B-side: Space Truckin’ recorded live in Majano, Italy, on July 24, 2013); CD single with bonus tracks Things […]
Read more »No hurry
Karolina Karbownik and Jakub Michalski did an interview with Ian Gillan for the Polish magazine Rock Axxess: Your last album, Now What?!, is really great, I love it. However, it seems like you were not in a hurry to record new songs. It’s true. We weren’t in a hurry at all. In fact, we would […]
Read more »The art of not ticking the boxes
Martin Popoff did an interview with Bob Ezrin for BraveWords: I didn’t come into this thinking that I had a mission. I came into this a little bit reluctantly, thinking that they were looking to me to make a contemporary rock album with Deep Purple, which I didn’t feel was appropriate, or could be done […]
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